Parsing Numbers

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Fri Sep 16 07:17:25 UTC 2005


On 15 sept. 05, at 22:26, Alexander Lazarević wrote:

> stéphane ducasse schrieb:
>
>> Strange indeed.
>> No idea and this should be clarified.
>> By the way what is the interpretation of the radix in presence of
>> exponent. Does it mean that exponent is also interpreted
>> following the radix specification.
>>
>
> Sure. The purple book gives two examples:
>
> 8r3e2    3*8^2=192
> 2r11e6    3*2^6=192

When I read that it seems that the exponent does not follow
the radix..but this is too early for my brain to fully work.

Stef


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